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1 KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – When he first started working at Leghorn Army Depot for the U.S. Army in 1984, he and his fellow employees had less than 100 pieces of rolling stock they worked with, and the mechanical condition of the equipment was not their responsibility. Now, 36 years later – at that same Army depot in Livorno, Italy – the Army Field Support Battalion-Africa deputy support operations officer says his team is responsible for over 3,000 pieces of equipment, t...

News Category Global Banking & Finance Reviews UTHealth in Houston and Athersys Announce Commencement of Patient Enrollment in a Phase 2 Trial Evaluating MultiStem® Cell Therapy in Trauma UTHealth in Houston and Athersys Announce Commencement of Patient Enrollment in a Phase 2 Trial Evaluating MultiStem® Cell Therapy in Trauma The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHX) announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in a cli...

Pinkerton: Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Shows America’s ‘Can-Do’ Spirit Is Back V is for . . .  In addition to “V” for “Virus,” we can add that “V” stands also for “Vaccine.”  Furthermore, “V” is for “Victory.”  At least in the healthcare sector, America Has Been Made Great Again. One of the architects of that victory is Gen. Gustave Perna, a four-star who took leave from the U.S. Army’s Materiel Command to become chief operating officer of Operation Warp Spee...

Gen. Ed Daly For years, Army Materiel Command has spread its limited modernization funding more or less evenly across its dozens of facilities, giving each of them enough for marginal, incremental improvements but never enough for a true top-to-bottom overhaul. The new modernization plan, Daly said, is meant to change that by prioritizing some facilities for higher funding – which means, in a “zero-sum” budget, that others will get less. “If we do this correctly, we could do it as a zer...

4 The year 2020 has been a year like many have never seen and the likes of one we hope to never see again. It’ll be remembered as the year COVID-19, face coverings, social distancing, videoconferencing and teleworking became the norm while frequent traveling and in-person events seemed a thing of the past. As the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command readies for 2021, it looks back on a small fraction of the milestones and accomplishments achieved in 2020. Key personnel move...

In future wars, AI, networks, and analytics won’t just help target precision weapons: They can also liberate combat units from long and vulnerable supply lines. But to make that work, AMC commander Gen. Ed Daly told us, frontline troops need a constant flow of data. By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 15, 2020 at 12:33 PM

9 CAMP CARROLL, Waegwan, Republic of Korea – The Army Field Support Battalion–Northeast Asia, received the fiscal 2020 Army Award for Maintenance Excellence here during a ceremony at Warehouse K, Dec. 10. The battalion was recognized in the Active Army Table of Distributions and Allowances Unit Category. The award, recognizing the best in Army maintenance operations, was presented to Lt. Col. Edward K. Woo, commander, AFSBn-NEA, by Col. Wheeler R. Manning, commander, 403rd A...

Distribution Has Begun. Army General Overseeing COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Says First Shipments Arrive Monday Time 12/12/2020 W.J. Hennigan © Al Drago—Getty Images/Bloomberg General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for the Defense Departments Operation Warp Speed project, speaks during a vaccine summit on Dec. 8, 2020, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Seven months of strategizing, $18 billion in funding and it’s all come down to this. Now that scientists at t...